Honorable Federico Pena                         8 December 1993
Secretary of Transportation
400 Seventh Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20590

Dear Mr. Secretary:

     I am pleased to announce that Navstar Global
Positioning System (GPS) has achieved its Initial Operational
Capability configuration as defined in the 1992 Federal
Radionavigation Plan jointly issued by our Departments.  The
Department of Defense hereby makes available to the Department
of Transportation the GPS Standard Positioning Service (SPS) in
accordance with our Memorandum of Agreement on civil use of the 
GPS.  A signal specification for the SPS, signed by the Chairman
of our DoD Positioning/Navigation Executive Committee, is being
forwarded to the Chairman of the DOT Navigation Council under
separate cover.

     This is an important and long-awaited milestone in our
implementation of the GPS to further Administration goals for 
expanding dual-use technology.  I look forward to continuing, 
long-term cooperation between our Departments as national and
international use of GPS grows.

                                      Sincerely,
                                        /s/
                                      Les Aspin


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GPSIC NOTE:

We will notify you on how to obtain the GPS Signal Specification 
when it becomes available.